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What can you cook?

Hi all. A big interest of mine over the past couple years has been the art of cooking. Although I am only a college student, I often spend my Sunday afternoons slaving away over the store trying to make some new creation. I enjoy cooking, and indeed find it a relaxing and rewarding experience. It is fun to challenge yourself by attempting new dishes of increasing skill, and to tweak old classics by adding a little bit of this and less of that. Last Sunday I tried my arm at an old French classic, Coq au Vin. It is chicken that is cooked in wine (traditionally Burgundy, but you can also use a dry red, normally Pinot Noir for this dish) along with some other ingredients. In the end you end up with a very rich sauce, which I complimented with a French potato dish called Pommes Anna. I was rather proud of it, so I thought I'd share, and see what other people on the forum enjoy cooking. I can also make some excellent Indian and Thai curry dishes, both of which I have taken from base recipes and then tweaked a bit to where I would consider them my version, I can make a mean baked gourmet macaroni and cheese, and when I'm feeling extra zealous, I will whip up Flan from scratch, which is actually rather difficult. So here are a few pics of the Coq au Vin during cooking and on the plate.

"We are in a sense the Universe trying to understand itself. By Observing it we are observing what we are." - Phillip Plait

I made a lasagna once but it cost a lot and took a long time of fooling around in the kitchen.
I like tactical strikes where I can get in and out of the kitchen before I get hit with any flying shrapnel. Hence the Hot Pocket!

i can cook bout anything if i try but the two dishes that i get rave reviews for are my smoked beef prime rib and "Chicken Crap" though a different word is used.........the chicken crap is a chicken and wild rice casserole i came up with trying to make a creamy chicken and wild rice soup.....prolly unhealthy as hell for yah but its a favorite at hunting camp cause its a hearty meal that sticks to your ribs after you spent all day living on jerky and granola bars out walking your **** off looking for deer and elk in the Breaks.......it got its name from the first few experiments making it where i over cooked the rice and it kinda disintegrated leaving me with a dish that looked like something that came out the back end of the bird i was trying to cook but it tasted wonderful......ive now got the cooking time nailed and it looks like a chicken and wild rice casserole but the name stuck....

I love using the wok, and a favorite recipe of mine is Curry-Honney Chicken with all the good wok vegetables, shrip battered with a honey and curry batter, and then thrown together with lots of garlic.